Here are some photos from the Ganesh Festival. It's an 11 day festival in which every street, sports club, community group or apartment block makes and decorates their own statue of Ganesh (A man with an elephant's head). Some are just a few feet tall, whilst the one I visited was 40 ft tall. Each Statue turns into a small shrine, it is placed upon a decorated stage and with fairy lights are hung in the street around it.

The Apartment block where I live had a Ganesh statue in its car park and every evening all the residents used to attend a ceremony in the evening.

On the first day of the ceremony thousands of people come to the statues and lay down coconuts, strings of jasmine and marigold flowers and leaves as an offering to Ganesh. Some people also offer money which is strung up and wound around Ganesh's head. (Can you spot the two guys who are half way up the statue precariously placing the money around his neck?)Photographers and film crews came out to record the day's events.

The statues are all taken to the lake one by one over the ten day period, they're placed on the back of lorries and the residents walk behind in procession banging drums and covering each other in paint. Once they reach the lake they're lifted by crane into the middle of it to dissolve.